This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 12 readers including a lot of Southwest rock and my old Tonasket storefront.

Lisa chose #8152.  An August monsoon storm created a white background for the Deva, Brahma, and Zoroaster temples as seen from the North Rim lodge Grand Canyon National Park.

Sue gets #132 for the number of words in her comment.  Took this shot on the way out of Cliff Palace, up ladders, while leading a tour at Mesa Verde National Park in 2005.  Upper left you can see where the tour starts.

Diane and Nigel chose #211.  Spring 2008 was my first season working at Grand Canyon and my first rim to rim hike across the canyon.  At this point I was about halfway up the nine-mile Bright Angel Trail to the South Rim.

Yogi chose #7912.  Summer wildflowers linger into September while a touch of yellow shows Autumn is on the way along the East Rim trail on the Kaibab National Forest.

Sherry and David chose #1106.  Southern Utah’s sandstone has been eroded into many shapes like these tee-pee rocks seen along Johnson Canyon Road in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.

Gail chose #1455.  Walhalla overlook on the North Rim provides a glimpse of the Colorado River in the depths of Grand Canyon.  Maybe next time she visits the southwest this will be one of the views.

Steve chose #138. During 2007 while working at Oregon Caves  National Monument I was also the camp host at Cave Creek in the Siskiyou National Forest.  Look closely across my yard to the right to see my old 5th-wheel RV home.

Pam and John chose #1101.  An unusual sight, the auditorium in the Grand Lodge before the North Rim opened for the 2010 season.

Rita chose #7099.  One of many species living in the Karoo National Park, South Africa.

Jeff chose #2131, “the address of the Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park.”  One shot of a panorama in another type of museum called the Owl House where Helen Martin lived and created art with concrete and broken glass.  This unusual place is located in Nieu-Bethesda South Africa.

Sallie and Bill chose #55.  My 1983 store front in Tonasket, Washington.

Ann chose #706.  The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliff Wilderness straddles Utah and Arizona where Wire Pass trail leads to Buckskin Gulch Slot Canyon.

My choice from this week, “such a fine sight to see…”

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including lots of Southwest rock along with the Colorado River.

Yogi and random dot org chose #2197.  A Vervet Monkey lookout at Camdeboo National Park.  These monkeys are seen all over South Africa and are the most obnoxious animals next to baboons.  They act kind of like squirrels in a park begging food and generally getting into trouble.

Steve chose #1952.  As I always told visitors, there’s no bad view of Grand Canyon, but, I really like the dramatic skies during monsoon season the best.

Diane and Nigel chose #1210.  From day four of rafting the Colorado River in 2011.  We ran Lava Falls rapid that day, the biggest and most exciting.

Rita chose #5938.  Sunsets are universally beautiful.  This shot is over the Indian Ocean at Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa from my last visit in 2014.

Jeff chose #1706, “the year of Ben Franklin’s birth, as I am reading a biography.”  I highly recommend reading a biography about John Wesley Powell, the first known white man to raft the Colorado River which lies only miles away from where this shot was taken of Cliff Dwellers Lodge along SR89A in northern Arizona.  Also a great place to stop for lunch.  (I had to stretch on that one Jeff.)

Jodee and Bill get #17 for the number of words in their comment.  I was seven weeks old in my mother’s arms and she looks bored to me.  Or maybe very tired.

Sherry and David chose #5874.  Another pretty sunset, this time over the Salton Sea, which isn’t a sea at all, taken from my camp at Corvina Beach.  It was wonderful weather and great bird watching during that February 2015 visit, but can be a hit or miss place depending on which way the wind blows.

Pam and John chose #7210.  Took this shot on a Ranger led geology talk.  The granite boulders in my home town of Yarnell are much like these in Joshua Tree National Park.  Maybe that’s why I like them both so much.

Sue chose #1106, “since that is the day I have to get on another airplane.”  She just returned from doing a lot of walking in Italy, thank goodness for stairs instead of this rocky terrain.  I didn’t do a lot of hiking while rafting the Colorado River but on day three walked a little ways up Matkatamiba Canyon.  If you ever get a chance to float the Colorado River, GO!

Gail chose #1358, “the number of miles we recently traveled in a two week journey around parts of Colorado, Utah and Arizona.”  I sure hope she made it to Grand Canyon, and maybe even the Point Imperial overlook on the North Rim where this panoramic shot was taken during a delightful monsoon storm in September 2009.

My choice this week, the view from my desk with Sierra getting a view above.  Can you guess what’s going on here?

Thank you for playing along with Foto Friday Fun which allows me to share these photographs and memories.  Please join in next week by leaving a number between 1 and 9999 in your comment below.

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